13 Notable alumni of
Southern Cross University
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Southern Cross University is 2919th in the world, 46th in Oceania, and 36th in Australia by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 13 notable alumni from Southern Cross University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Linda Reynolds
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Linda Karen Reynolds is an Australian politician. She is a member of the Liberal Party and has served as a Senator for Western Australia since 2014. She held senior ministerial office as a cabinet minister in the Morrison government from 2019 to 2022.
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Ashok Lavasa
- Occupations
- civil servant
- Biography
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Ashok Lavasa is a retired 1980 batch Indian Administrative Service officer of Haryana cadre and was one of the two Election Commissioners of India. He has also served as the Finance Secretary of India, Environment, Forests and Climate Change Secretary of India and Civil Aviation Secretary of India. He served as the Vice President of Asian Development Bank (ADB) from August 2020 to August 2023.
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Mickalene Thomas
- Occupations
- collagistpaintertelevision producerphotographer
- Biography
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Mickalene Thomas is a contemporary African-American visual artist best known as a painter of complex works using rhinestones, acrylic, and enamel. Thomas's collage work is inspired from popular art histories and movements, including Impressionism, Cubism, Dada, the Harlem Renaissance, and selected works by the Afro-British painter Chris Ofili. Her work draws from Western art history, pop art, and visual culture to examine ideas around femininity, beauty, race, sexuality, and gender.
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Justin Harrison
- Occupations
- rugby union player
- Biography
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Justin Harrison, born 20 April 1974 in Sydney, is a former Australian international rugby union player, who played lock forward and is currently the head of the Australian Rugby Union Players Association
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Poto Williams
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Munokoa Poto Williams is a New Zealand Labour Party politician and a member of Parliament. She was elected in a 2013 by-election and served as Minister of Conservation and Minister for Disability Issues in the Sixth Labour Government.
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Steve Price
- Occupations
- rugby league player
- Biography
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Steven John Price is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s primarily as a prop. An Australian international representative, he retired as Queensland's most capped State of Origin forward. Price captained Sydney club, the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs (with whom he won the 1995 and 2004 premierships) as well as New Zealand NRL club, the Warriors.
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Daniel McDaniel
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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Major General Daniel Francis McDaniel, DSC, AM, DSM is a retired senior officer of the Australian Army. He served as the acting Special Operations Commander Australia from September 2013 to December 2014, after Major General Gus Gilmore was reassigned. He was seconded to the United States Army Pacific as Deputy Commanding General – North from January 2019 to January 2022.
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Tamara Smith
- Enrolled in Southern Cross University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Laws
- Occupations
- politiciansolicitorteacher
- Biography
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Tamara Francine Smith, an Australian politician, is a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Ballina for the Greens since 2015.
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Caroline Le Couteur
- Years
- 1952-.. (age 72)
- Enrolled in Southern Cross University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Business
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Caroline Le Couteur is an Australian politician. She was elected to the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly representing the electorate of Molonglo for the ACT Greens at the 2008 election and defeated at the 2012 election In October 2016, she was re-elected to the assembly representing the new electorate of Murrumbidgee, serving a single term until her retirement in 2020.
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Jodi Martin
- Years
- 1976-.. (age 48)
- Occupations
- songwritersinger
- Biography
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Jodi Miranda Martin is an Australian singer-songwriter. Her professional music career began in mid-1996 while she was still a student, when she was the opening act for Arlo Guthrie's first Australian tour. Brisbane Times called her "one of Australia's most up and coming singer songwriters." She has been influenced by Joni Mitchell and compared to Tracy Chapman and Suzanne Vega.
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David Heilpern
- Occupations
- lawyercivil servant
- Biography
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David Heilpern is an Australian lawyer and author. After attending school in Sydney, and university in Sydney, Canberra and Lismore, New South Wales, Heilpern became a solicitor and barrister. He is the author of For Fear of Favour: Sexual Assault of Young Prisoners, a prominent study of sexual assault in prisons, and has been an advocate of prison and law reform. In 1998 he became one of the youngest Magistrates in New South Wales. In 2004 he was awarded Southern Cross University's Alumnus of the Decade Award.
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Jone Usamate
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jone Usamate is a Fijian politician, who served as the Minister for Infrastructure and Meteorological Services from 2014 to 2022 and Minister for Lands and Mineral Resources from 2020 to 2022 in the Fijian government.
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Ben Newton
- Occupations
- wheelchair rugby player
- Biography
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Ben Newton, is a wheelchair rugby player. He was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in wheelchair rugby.
